Sonardyne International Ltd. is celebrating winning the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in Innovation for its 6G® underwater product range. Announced yesterday, Monday 21st April, the Queen’s Award for Enterprise recognises and encourages commercial success resulting from outstanding innovative achievements by businesses in the UK. These are conferred by HM Queen Elizabeth II, on advice of the Prime Minister, and are the highest award a UK business can receive.
Headquartered in Yateley, Hampshire, UK, with regional offices in Aberdeen, Brazil, Houston, Plymouth and Singapore, Sonardyne is recognised as a pioneer in the design and manufacture of underwater acoustic positioning, inertial navigation, wireless communications and sonar technology. Users for the Company’s technology are found within the offshore energy, ocean research and maritime security industries. The Company was founded in 1971 by John Partridge and today remains privately owned, employing 310 people worldwide, 265 of which are based in the UK.
Launched in 2010, Sonardyne’s award winning 6G (Sixth Generation) technology platform was judged to have addressed users’ needs for underwater technology that is low risk, versatile and easy to use. Its performance over the previous generation technology can be likened to the difference between analogue and digital mobile telecommunications. 6G products have made an impact on diverse subsea operations around the world and, in 2013/14, were exported to 55 different countries.
“We are immensely proud and honoured to have won The Queen’s Award for Enterprise in Innovation with our ground-breaking development of 6G,” said John Ramsden, Sonardyne’s Managing Director. “When we set out down the path towards 6G, we wanted to develop a family of products that would maximise operational efficiencies and, at the same time, simplify use and minimise costs for our clients. Four years of export success, culminating in this prestigious award, is recognition of our achievements. 6G has brought tangible benefits wherever it has been put to work and is helping to redefine the way in which we explore our oceans and realise our global energy needs.”
Representatives from the company will be presented with the award at a reception hosted by the Queen at Buckingham Palace on Monday 14th July 2014.
Frankfurt/London: SecurEnvoy has been announced as one of the winners of the 2014 Queen’s Award for Enterprise. It is the most significant and most prestigious business award across the commonwealth and rest of the world and this year it will be presented on 21 April, Queen Elizabeth II's birthday. SecurEnvoy will receive the award, in the "International Trade" category, for its invention of tokenless two-factor authentication. The success of SecurEnvoy is attested by the London-based company's world-wide sales network, which now covers every continent. Queen Elizabeth herself will present the award to the company's founders, Steve Watts and Andy Kemshall.
SecurEnvoy was officially founded in 2003 by Steve Watts and Andy Kemshall. With offices in London, Frankfurt and San Diego, the creator of the two-factor authentication system has succeeded in establishing a world-wide network of international resellers. The company's products SecurAccess, SecurCloud, SecurICE, SecurMail and SecurPassword are now exported to North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania. SecurEnvoy pursues channel sales of its solutions, which gives customers the advantage of being able to work directly with local partners. As a result, the technical and sales infrastructure is continually expanding in order to be able to support an increasing number of languages and cultures across the whole world.
Award for international trade
It is for these international sales activities that SecurEnvoy is being given the 2014 Queen's Award for Enterprise in the "International Trade" category. Nominations for each category are decided by an independent jury, which then submits its recommendations to the advisory committee of the Prime Minister. The committee then conveys its final recommendations to the Queen, who personally approves the winners. In addition to the award, winners like SecurEnvoy can also expect an invitation to a special reception at Buckingham Palace in July. SecurEnvoy's products will be able to display the Queen's Award emblem with immediate effect for the next five years as a symbol of quality and success.
"We feel hugely honoured to receive the 2014 Queen's Award for Enterprise from the Queen," comments Steve Watts, Co-Founder and Sales & Marketing Director of SecurEnvoy. "For years we have focused on the expansion and globalisation of our sales network. It's great that the resulting success of our products has been acknowledged and has even resulted in an award from such a prestigious body. After having already won the Queen's Award for Innovation in 2011 and having been able to meet the Queen then, we are all the more pleased to be able to see Queen Elizabeth at the award ceremony again this year."